The new sim brings with it plenty of pros and cons. Easily noticeable are the new fields, the fact that kicks get some sort of showing on the stream, the ball moves through the air on passes, the tickers scroll far too quickly to really understand and disappear between plays, the playbooks are radically different, and the teams get to set their own home fields.
I’ll start with the bad. The defensive pass interference calling is blatantly broken. Offenses will always accept a penalty that moves them…0 yards from the line of scrimmage. It is entirely possible that a team will wipe out a massive play to accept a zero yard penalty. This just goes to show that while the game may have improved significantly, the sim itself still has fundamental errors. Additionally, my player has sucked. It wasn’t until game three that I got my first stat other than a penalty.
The good us that there is a noticeable improvement in time management and play calling when a team is down in the final minutes of a game. I haven’t (yet) seen a team call a timeout before punting the ball to the other team. The ball moving through the air on passing plays is a definite improvement. I’m sure kickers appreciate having something on screen during their kicks. And the Yeti hands down have the cleanest field in the entire sim.
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I’ll start with the bad. The defensive pass interference calling is blatantly broken. Offenses will always accept a penalty that moves them…0 yards from the line of scrimmage. It is entirely possible that a team will wipe out a massive play to accept a zero yard penalty. This just goes to show that while the game may have improved significantly, the sim itself still has fundamental errors. Additionally, my player has sucked. It wasn’t until game three that I got my first stat other than a penalty.
The good us that there is a noticeable improvement in time management and play calling when a team is down in the final minutes of a game. I haven’t (yet) seen a team call a timeout before punting the ball to the other team. The ball moving through the air on passing plays is a definite improvement. I’m sure kickers appreciate having something on screen during their kicks. And the Yeti hands down have the cleanest field in the entire sim.
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